Download or read book The Medieval Chastity Belt written by A. Classen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-03-19 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chastity belt is one of those objects people have commonly identified with the 'dark' Middle Ages. This book analyzes the origin of this myth and demonstrates how a convenient misconception, or contorted imagination, of an allegedly historical practice has led to profoundly flawed interpretations of control mechanisms used by jealous husbands.
Download or read book The Girdle of Chastity written by Eric John Dingwall and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Songs of Bilitis written by Pierre Louÿs and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gamiani Or Two Nights of Excess written by Alfred De Musset and published by olympiapress.com. This book was released on 2007 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modeled after George Sand, this work gives us a young man observing Gamiani and a young girl, obligingly named Fanny, engaged in their lesbian bed. Having watched them and provoked by their gay abandonment, he reveals himself, joins them, and they spend the night alternately sharing their intimate histories and their bodies in orgies of almost religious intensity. The stories they tell include the rape of one in a monastery and the nearly fatal debauchment of another in a convent, as well as encounters with a number of animals. Author Edith Wharton had an unpublished work based on this text.
Download or read book Representations of Early Byzantine Empresses written by A. McClanan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reconsiders a wide array of images of Byzantine empresses on media as diverse as bronze coins and gold mosaic from the fifth through to the seventh centuries A.D. The representations have often been viewed in terms of individual personas, but strong typological currents frame their medieval context. Empress Theodora, the target of political pornography, has consumed the bulk of past interest, but even her representations fit these patterns. Methodological tools from fields as disparate as numismatics as well as cultural and gender studies help clarify the broader cultural significance of female imperial representation and patronage at this time.
Download or read book The Amatory Experiences of a Surgeon written by Anonymous and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Eleanor of Aquitaine written by B. Wheeler and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleanor's patrilineal descent, from a lineage already prestigious enough to have produced an empress in the eleventh century, gave her the lordship of Aquitaine. But marriage re-emphasized her sex which, in the medieval scheme of gender-power relations relegated her to the position of Lady in relation to her Lordly husbands. In this collection, essays provide a context for Eleanor's life and further an evolving understanding of Eleanor's multifaceted career. A valuable collection on the greatest heiress of the medieval period.
Download or read book Padlocks and Girdles of Chastity written by Alcide Bonneau and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1932 edition.
Download or read book Medievalism and Orientalism written by J. Ganim and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique study traces fundamental parallels between medieval European and Middle Eastern cultures. By examining sources in cultural history, literature, and architecture, this book reveals mutual influences evident in the development of the current conception of the Middle Ages.
Download or read book Green Girls written by Alphonse Momas and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-12-26 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Adelina is caught in the most compromising of positions, she is soon sent to a convent school for wayward adolescents in far off France. The first part of this gem describes our female protagonist's first tastes of lust as she embarks on a torrid and forbidden love affair with her tutor. Their gradual draw to one another is wonderfully erotic, each attempting to hold back but unable to do so. The old monk, eager not to spoil Adelina's virginity, introduces her to all those forbidden pleasures that one of his proclivity are want to practice. The next part of the book is presented in way of correspondence dedicated to Adelina's formative years coming-of-age amongst the morally loose lesbians of her convent school. Here she will learn the art of the soixante-neuf, tribadism, and flagellation. From Green Girl she will entertain the interests of her peers enough to rouse the attentions and admiration of the institution's chaplain. And under his guidance and that of the mistress of the school she will rise through the ranks to join the confraternity of the Red Girls; a libertine group whose passions truly know no bounds. This must be one of the most graphically lascivious works in the Locus Elm collection, to a level of debauchery on par with that of De Sade's works. This is Alphonse Momas' erotic master-work replete with liberal helpings of all things forbidden and flagellatory. (Please note, all characters depicted herein are over the age of eighteen and partake in scenes consensual in nature).
Download or read book Therese the Philosopher written by Marquis d'Argens and published by Disruptive Publishing. This book was released on 2013-12-23 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first-person narrative by Therese is the charming tale of an innocent's initiation into sexual happiness. Self-discovery in a convent leads her to her confessor, Father Dirrag, and she is soon launched upon the path of reason that convinces her that passion and love of the Deity are equal gifts of God. With additional mentors, Therese learns that sensations are but a part of temperament, as natural as hunger and thirst, and all may be satisfied as long as it does not harm others.
Download or read book Tales of Firenzuola Benedictine Monk of Vallombrosa written by Agnolo Firenzuola and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-18 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales of Firenzuola, Benedictine Monk of Vallombrosa - For the First Time Translated in English is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1889. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
Download or read book The Vernacular Spirit written by R. Blumenfeld-Kosinski and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-06-28 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late-medieval movement into 'vernacular theology,' as it has come to be called, inspired many forms of literary expression, in all the languages of Europe. Spanning a wide field, the contributors to this volume consider hagiography, translations of and commentaries on scripture, accounts of visionary experiences, and devotional literature. Their essays illuminate encounters with the divine mediated through language, bringing into play a diversity of national cultures and disciplinary points of view. They also engage vital social and political issues connected with religious experience, including challenges to authority, reinterpretations of texts, and renegotiations of gender roles.
Download or read book Bibliotheca Arcana Seu Catalogus Librorum Penetralium Being Brief Notices of Books that Have Been Secretly Printed Prohibited by Law Seized Anathematised Burnt Or Bowdlerised written by Speculator morum and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Postcolonial Middle Ages written by J. Cohen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2000-04-21 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An increased awareness of the importance of minority and subjugated voices to the histories and narratives which have previously excluded them has led to a wide-spread interest in the effects of colonization and displacement. This collection of essays is the first to apply post-colonial theory to the Middle Ages, and to critique that theory through the excavation of a distant past. The essays examine the establishment of colony, empire, and nationalism in order to expose the mechanisms of oppression through which 'aboriginal' 'native' or simply pre-existent cultures are displaced, eradicated, or transformed.
Download or read book Sight and Embodiment in the Middle Ages written by S. Biernoff and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-07-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book breaks new ground by bringing postmodern writings on vision and embodiment into dialogue with medieval texts and images: an interdisciplinary strategy that illuminates and complicates both cultures. This is an invaluable reference work for anyone interested in the history and theory of visuality, and it is essential reading for scholars of art, science or spirituality in the medieval period.
Download or read book Joan of Arc and Spirituality written by Bonnie Wheeler and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joan of Arc is an unusual saint. Canonized in 1920 as a virgin, she died in 1431 as a condemned heretic. Uneducated, militant, and youthful, she obeyed 'Voices' that counselled her to pursue an unprecedented vocation. The various trial records provide a wealth of evidence about how Joan and others understood her spiritual life. This collection explores multiple facets of Joan's prayerful life. Two-thirds of the essays focus on Joan in her own time; the later chapters study Joan's formative influence upon modern women. Taken together, these essays offer new perspectives on the heroism of Joan's original way of sanctity.
